Recent update: 2008-3-21
Hi all,I hope that this is right place to ask. Sorry if not.Suppose you are going to make a SideShow compatible device. Further, your device should use 2.4GHz Radio to connect to Vista. I am working on a hardware/firmware project to support that.The idea is to create a USB dongle that has built ...
HiWhat installation method is recommended for a sideshow driver?I tried DPInst.exe shipped with the DDK but it doesn't works (installs something because second time it sees that already was installed but the device does not appears in the device list so most probably it does only a ...
Hi All,As I investigate the SideShow, I don't know how to transfer audio/video to SCF structure.I know it has sample SideShow gadget for media player which can playback audio.But does somebody know how to do it?Does it need write a driver for it? Evan ...
Hi, everyone Now I meet a problem about sending application event in SideShow. Assume we navigate in the Windows Media Player gadget and in the content id of 00007 (Now playing), and when we click the select button, it will navigate to a menu id of 100, then we can choose to click Play Pause ...
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Elon at 2008-3-1
Hey everyone! I am a firm believer in Sideshow and I am quite excited at what it will offer. I am waiting for a Sideshow reader impatiently because it would be the perfect tool for me. As a an academic researcher this kind of device would help me immensely!I have a Toshiba R400 with Vista ...
Hi- How do you add ToolTip style context sensitive help text for a Gadget in the SideShow Control Panel? So text would pop up when the mouse pointer is over the Gadget name in the SideShow Control Panel. Thanks, Steven
Hi Dan, How all is well! I have a nested menu 2 layers deep. I've set up the ItemIds for each layer at 10-n and 100-n. I first send glance data to the simulator. The menus work just fine. At runtime, when the event is fired, e.ItemId has a value of a -1 when the eventargs are passed in to ...
Hi all, I have a question if you somebody could help me: I have for example a menu with three menuitems, and when I click on a menuitem a text appears in the next page, but the problem is when I select the second menuitem for example the text appears in the next page but when I press the device ...
I'm dying to run SideShow gadgets on my WinMo 5 pocket pc. When will drivers be available and will there be any hardware-related restrictions on what type of gadgets will run? Thanks, Scott
is there are list of SlideShow compatible mobile phones? or are there any devices which you know that work with SlideShow (as in if you use SlideShow, or know somebody who does, what mobile phone you/they use thanks
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Hi What installation method is recommended for a sideshow driver? I tried DPInst.exe shipped with the DDK but it doesn't works (installs something because second time it sees that already was installed but the device does not appears in the device list so most probably it does only a ...
Hi There is a possibility to predefine actions connected to certain buttons into the XML. I'm thinking to this line: "<btn target=10 key="right">Forward</btn>" My problem is that I could not find a complete list of the possible key elements. The example ...
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Nike at 2008-2-21
Hi everybody: I am a rookie ,i have just started to write a gadget,how can i send content to the Windows SideShow simulator? HRESULT CAlarmContent::GetContent( ISideShowCapabilities *pICapabilities, DWORD* pdwSize, BYTE** ppbData){ HRESULT hr = S_OK; SYSTEMTIME sysTime; WORD wHour; WORD ...
Hello, I would like to create a new driver to enable a device which supports sockets. Unfortunately, as I have no experience whats so ever in writing drivers I'm completely lost.. I've downloaded the DDK and looked into the Sideshow driver sample but none of it makes sense to me. I'm fairly ...
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al1986 at 2008-2-19
Is it possible to code SideShow gadgets in IronPython? Thanks
Hi all, I want to create gadgets but I'm not sure where to start. What else do I need to install and how can I start creating this? I already know c#.net and have visual studio 2003. any help would be great. thanks. coral
In the new Device Emulator, there is a PC Status "gadget" that has no corresponding "gadget" appearing in the Windows SideShow Control Panle Applet. We assume there is some kind of "stub" running on the back-end communicating with the Emulator and sending it the ...
Hi all, I want to create gadgets but I'm not sure where to start. What else do I need to install and how can I start creating this? I already know c#.net and have visual studio 2003. any help would be great. thanks. coral
In the new Device Emulator, there is a PC Status "gadget" that has no corresponding "gadget" appearing in the Windows SideShow Control Panle Applet. We assume there is some kind of "stub" running on the back-end communicating with the Emulator and sending it the ...
Hello, I would like to create a new driver to enable a device which supports sockets. Unfortunately, as I have no experience whats so ever in writing drivers I'm completely lost.. I've downloaded the DDK and looked into the Sideshow driver sample but none of it makes sense to me. I'm fairly ...
Hi All, I use the sample program from http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/01/SideShow/default.aspx?loc=en I found I can not compiler duo to lost reference from "SideshowGadget" using Microsoft.SideShow; using Microsoft.SideShow.SimpleContentFormat; I already install ...
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sgrig at 2008-2-15
I'm new in this forum. I want to make a cell phone compatable with sideshow. But I don't know where to start. If you can, please describe from where to start and what I need.I read somewhere that I have to implement .netMF for my device, but I don't know where to find specification for ...
I've written some code in C# to interact with a SideShow device. I'm trying to get events fired in the C# when the SideShow device state changes. I've tried capturing the ContentNavigate, AllDevicesRemoved, DeviceRemoved, DeviceAdded and GadgetEnter events but I'm not seeing anything run in ...
Hi, I'm running Windows Vista Home, and trying out the DevX article on the sideshow simulator, and the Sideshow Control in Control Panel isn't there, it doesn't appear where it does on my other computer, running vista home premium. I looked in Windows Features to try to install it, it's ...
The following is a sample WIX .wxs file designed to create an installer for a managed Windows SideShow gadget. This has a few benefits over a generic installer. It will check for the Windows SideShow .NET Framework Components (Managed API) and block the install if they’re not found. It will run ...
Hi- I'm looking to navigate to a different page on the device from the PC. When the User changes the settings, the page that is being view on the device may no longer be valid, so I would like to send the User to a valid page. Can I send a SCF_NAVIGATION_EVENT to all connected SideShow ...
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MaxOd at 2008-2-13
Hi,I would like to connect to a SideShow capable devices wireless, so e.g via Bluetooth.What would be the best location/function in doing this, especially making and reestablishing a connecting to the remote device? Should/Must there be one driver for one specific device (e.g. hardcoded MAC ...
I'm dying to run SideShow gadgets on my WinMo 5 pocket pc. When will drivers be available and will there be any hardware-related restrictions on what type of gadgets will run? Thanks, Scott
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Nike at 2008-2-11
Hi everybody: I am a rookie ,i have just started to write a gadget,how can i send content to the Windows SideShow simulator? HRESULT CAlarmContent::GetContent( ISideShowCapabilities *pICapabilities, DWORD* pdwSize, BYTE** ppbData){ HRESULT hr = S_OK; SYSTEMTIME sysTime; WORD wHour; WORD ...
Hi all, I have a question if you somebody could help me: I have for example a menu with three menuitems, and when I click on a menuitem a text appears in the next page, but the problem is when I select the second menuitem for example the text appears in the next page but when I press the device ...
Hi, everyone Now I meet a problem about sending application event in SideShow. Assume we navigate in the Windows Media Player gadget and in the content id of 00007 (Now playing), and when we click the select button, it will navigate to a menu id of 100, then we can choose to click Play Pause ...
Hi- What is the best way to track memory usage for Gadgets? The Momento Debugger is a great tool to get the storage size, but I was curious what is the best way to track the memory on real SideShow devices. I know there is some behind the scenes memory management. Thanks in advance Dan, ...
The Windows SideShow team has just released the Feed Viewer beta gadget, which lets you view your favorite RSS feed content on your Windows SideShow devices. As with all other Windows SideShow gadgets, you can download this gadget from the Windows Live Gallery. Since this is a beta gadget, as ...
The Windows SideShow driver (BETA) for the i-mate Digital Photo Frame (Momento) was launched today. Owners of Momento frames can now receive glance SideShow content over their wireless network from their Windows Vista PC. http://www.momentolive.com Hurrah! ...
Hi!I am looking for an exemple of SideBar gadget compatible with SideShow.I try to get this exemple: Stocks (Windows SideShow enabled).gadget http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=d4eb1c1d-3eeb-4273-a56e-d1f41804b047&l=7But when I try to unzip it, it says that the file is not ...
Good Morning, I would like to develop a SideShow gadget to control my Media Center (Vista media center) and affich on the gadget the infoamtions (example: music title, artist ....) But my problem is what i don't know how to send informations from the media center to the sideshow and control ...
Good Morning, I would like to develop a SideShow gadget to control my Media Center (Vista media center) and affich on the gadget the infoamtions (example: music title, artist ....) But my problem is what i don't know how to send informations from the media center to the sideshow and control ...
Hi, when I use Windows Media Player gadget, I wonder how it trasfer sound data bewteen gadget and sideshow driver? And how it control the time ellaspe and the status like(stop, pause,playing) and show it? Is it in the form of the same content id? I will very appreciate for your answer.Thanks. ...
Hi, when I use Windows Media Player gadget, I wonder how it trasfer sound data bewteen gadget and sideshow driver? And how it control the time ellaspe and the status like(stop, pause,playing) and show it? Is it in the form of the same content id? I will very appreciate for your answer.Thanks. ...
I have some questions for sideshow platform.I thought the roughly diagram between Vista and Sideshow-compatible device as follows, ==================================================== Vista-PC || Device==================================================== Gadgets || Gadgets Sideshow platform || ...
Hi I'm looking to develop some applications for windows sideshow however I am having severe issues getting my development environment up and running. I visited the micrsoft link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=06fa2ace-a42d-4117-821c-bce80786f1c4&DisplayLang=en ...
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Kenen at 2008-2-4
How can I open a handle to the sideshow device? I can't find the handle in the winobj. And I used the "Matching device Id" and the "Display name" and "Physical Device Object name" from the device manager.But all failed for no such path or file. Where can I set ...
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Kenen at 2008-2-4
Hi, I'm developing a device driver based on the "No Device" example. But if I installed the exampe, the state of device is shown as "connected". How to make the device as "Disconnected"? And how to notify the device is connected again? The gadget will connect ...
The Windows SideShow driver (BETA) for the i-mate Digital Photo Frame (Momento) was launched today. Owners of Momento frames can now receive glance SideShow content over their wireless network from their Windows Vista PC. http://www.momentolive.com Hurrah! ...
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Nike at 2008-2-4
Hi everybody: I am a rookie ,i have just started to write a gadget,how can i send content to the Windows SideShow simulator? HRESULT CAlarmContent::GetContent( ISideShowCapabilities *pICapabilities, DWORD* pdwSize, BYTE** ppbData){ HRESULT hr = S_OK; SYSTEMTIME sysTime; WORD wHour; WORD ...
Hi everybody I have just started to write a gadget(I'm a newbee), I already know how to send glance content, also i know how to send XML pages, the only think im missing is how to send pictures. can someone can share a piece of code as a reference sample for me? I tried the following: ...
hello all, Would it be possible to use .net microframework on an Nintendo DS, which uses ARM7 and ARM9 cores ? I think it'd be cool to use it as a SideShow compatible device, over TCP/IP transport. Various homebrew libraries have been developed to access the hardware(libnds/dswifi/ ...
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danny at 2008-2-2
hello all, I'm a newbee and was just interested in sideshow gadget topic.. i ve used the display simulator and tried to make simple stuff like displaying text content, dialog content, and loading image. All works well so far.. After all, what i have done is only providing data to the platform ...
I've written some code in C# to interact with a SideShow device. I'm trying to get events fired in the C# when the SideShow device state changes. I've tried capturing the ContentNavigate, AllDevicesRemoved, DeviceRemoved, DeviceAdded and GadgetEnter events but I'm not seeing anything run in ...